Coagulable fluid

Usage examples of lymph.

Of course, she succeeded in squeezing out only the thin, pale areolar lymph that almost any corpulent woman or even a fat eunuch can express from her or his breast.

Once I clamped off the bleeders, I had to work through the tiny forest of arterial branches, suturing the torn lymph tissue itself.

The lymphatics in the wall of the intestine take up some of the digested food from the cells and pass it on through the lymph glands of the abdomen to the lymph duct which empties into a vein near the heart.

It produces a condition called filariasis, also called elephantiasis, so called because the clogged lymph vessels stop the flow of lymph, causing the body behind the stoppage to swell.

I was not alarmed personally, for, as I suffered no pain and the lump was quite soft, I guessed it was only a collection of lymph, the remainder of the evil humours which I had sweated away in the fever.

No, because lymph glands are not found in the skin, where hyaluronic acid is typically located.

A second possibility arises from the fact that the thymus is composed of lymphoid tissue, very like that of the spleen, the tonsils, and the lymph nodes.

By then, enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes would be putting serious extrinsic pressure on his heart, making it have to work even harder.

The pustules contain serous lymph, which exudes if the cuticle be broken, and forms a crust at the summit of the pustule.

With typhoidal tularemia there may be no X-ray evidence of pneumonia, and the ulcers and swollen lymph nodes that characterize the other most common forms may be absent.

When life is sustained by the volitive powers, it is distinguished by a softness of the bodily tissues, and the prevalence of lymph.

Montgomery, in an excellent paper, advances the theory, which is very plausible, that intrauterine amputations are caused by contraction of bands or membranes of organized lymph encircling the limb and producing amputation by the same process of disjunctive atrophy that the surgeons induce by ligature.

And anthrax could be distinguished by the characteristic X ray showing a swelling of the lymph nodes between the lungs, in the part of the chest known as the mediastinum.

Some excrementitious matters are supposed to be taken from the tissues by the lymph and discharged into the blood, to be ultimately removed from the system.

Through their effects upon the blood and the lymph, the organs of circulation, respiration, digestion, and excretion minister in different ways to the cells, and aid in the maintenance of life.